Articles tagged with "cardiff-city-news"
Campione campione, ole ole ole!
By Martyn | November 16th, 2009While others were away on international duty this week (the way Stephen Ireland discusses it, the 21st century's equivalent of national service), Peter Whittingham was ...
Barer than a Liz Hurley dress
By Martyn | November 11th, 2009McPhail is out for three months. Curses! It's been a running theme during the Dave Jones era to operate with a squad thinner than a ...
Why intercity derbies don't really mean anything
By Martyn | November 5th, 2009As anybody living in these parts probably knows by now, the entire South Welsh Police force will be having a paperwork-free bonding session at the ...
Two can play that game you're playin'
By Martyn | November 2nd, 2009Due to work commitments, I missed the opening zwanzig minuten of debt-free (?) Cardiff City's Beeb-televised clash with Nottingham Branches and Leaves. Fans and the ...
'Phew' at these few
By Martyn | October 30th, 2009By virtue of failing to capture a transfer target last summer, it appears that we've had a fortuitous moral escape. Marlon King was briefly lusted ...
10 reasons why Peter Whittingham is currently making life more difficult for City's opponents than trying to pull a condom over Darth Maul's head
By Martyn | October 27th, 200912 goals in 17 games, 9 in the last 6, milestone hat-tricks, countless assists: yep, life is sweet for the left-midfielder at present. So pointing ...
No Wanderers, Athletic, or United invited
By Martyn | October 22nd, 2009Chris Coleman's dusky complexion and diamond-cut suit lend him an aura (?) that the charcoal bagginess of Dave Jones (and his threads) lacks. Nevertheless, it ...
'bird feed
By Martyn | October 20th, 2009Due to being stuck in t'mine shaft with only a canary and baa baa black sheep-coloured sedimentary rock for company, I missed Saturday's 1-1 draw ...
Whatever happened to...
By Martyn | October 14th, 2009A look at where life has taken some of the peripheral signings of the Dave Jones reign. Jason BYRNE (01/07 - 09/08) The Irish Gerd Müller was ...
These little town blues... are melting away
By Martyn | October 6th, 20092009/10s Cardiff City are proving to be owners of the most prominent split personality since Dr Henry Jekyll's. Limp, moribund showings against the likes of ...
Dickov and Derby dicked on
By Martyn | September 30th, 2009As overjoyed as I was to do twee self-concious jigs and fist-swipes on no less than SIX occasions yesterday evening, it must be acknowledged that ...
Is Joe Ledley just a run-of-the-mill second division midfielder?
By Martyn | September 28th, 2009ONCE UPON A TIME (or Amser maith yn ôl)... in a land called Cardiff, there lived the most fantastic of all monarchs. His name was ...
Oh Jay Simpson
By Martyn | September 21st, 2009Flavio Briatore, Head Something-or-Other at QPR has had a naff week. Perhaps the toothpaste-haired archetypal Bond villain can use the vacancies his freshly tippex'd diary ...
First the Maiwand Lions, next the team in the Beeb's back garden?
By Martyn | September 19th, 2009City ended a two-game losing streak with a fine single-goal victory away to Puma-buddies Reading. Although it's too early in the season and too short ...
Geordies in decent shape shocker!
By Martyn | September 15th, 2009For the Italian word 'melina', there is no equivalent in the English language. This football-related term refers to the process usually enacted by sides holding ...
How the Miners can overcome the Messiahs
By Martyn | September 11th, 2009Two of the Championship's more fancied sides square up to one another on Sunday at the Cardiff City Stadium as the Bluebirds do battle with ...
Cups, cock-ups and contracts
By Martyn | September 7th, 2009Apologies for a lengthy Cardiff City writing absence. Work, lethargy, a busier social calendar, bumper issues of World Soccer and an addiction to/near-completion of Super ...
Dave Jones and his seven dwarfs
By Martyn | August 20th, 2009I promised to eat my mangled car should Argyle-City contain more than 2 goals. Hmm. My cop-out is that 106 is Cardiffian rhyming slang for ...
Coleen Nolan's hometown 1, Roald Dahl's 1
By Martyn | August 17th, 2009I was really looking forward to making the trip to Blackpool. The away end may have an aversion to roofing and the journey there alone ...
Generic weak pun about dodging a dagger to the ticker
By Martyn | August 12th, 2009City beat Dagenham & Redbridge 3-1 in the League Cup on a pleasant summer's evening yesterday, but in truth it was a match about as ...
Football League Championship predictions with lemon
By Martyn | August 6th, 2009Rather than compete with the stupendously good Championship preview compiled by the Plymouth blog's helmsman, Jim, I've decided to take an alternative approach. One thing ...
Pericard's and rearguards
By Martyn | August 4th, 2009On Saturday August 1st, Cardiff City were defeated two-nothing at home to Valencia B. The game, a pre-season friendly, was played in a hearty, fiery, ...
...easy as 123, simple as Do-Re-Mi!
By Martyn | July 30th, 2009Prior to the start of the 2008/09 campaign, I compiled an A-Z list of what I suspected would be people, elements and facets germane to ...
Bagel-bagel with the club of Keane, van Hooijdonk and O'Neill. "'oo, Forest?!"
By Martyn | July 24th, 2009As ever, I don't post for a week or so and the club continues to pile up stories like an African warlord stacks up blood ...
Hoopla!
By Martyn | July 20th, 2009Penciled into City fans' diaries on Wednesday of this week is a match against 1967 European champions Celtic. So ahead of City's first proper friendly ...
Rap to clap to crap
By Martyn | July 16th, 2009Football clubs dabbling in the world of pop music always equals notoriously miss or miss results. Perhaps not primarily, but one major problem is that ...
The BBC continues its sorry decline
By Martyn | July 6th, 2009I've lifted most of this introduction from Wikipedia, but it perfectly details the history of the license fee-funded British Broadcasting Corporation and all that it ...
Old, new, borrowed and blue
By Martyn | July 2nd, 2009For once, borrowed isn't a term applicable to the players recruited by the club thus far. However, I'm sure that'll change come the last day ...
Vintage PR
By Martyn | June 25th, 2009Cardiff City chairman Peter Ridsdale has never exactly been the shy and retiring type, but surely there comes a time when even he realises that ...
Ballon d'Bluebird also-rans.
By Martyn | June 6th, 2009My apologies for a lengthy delay between this post and the corresponding one. The unexpected arrival of a British heatwave - a BO arousing, whopping ...
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